And now for some local Jews

Jews are moving back into Harlem, including – of course – Chabad, reports the New York Daily News.

Also in the News, New York’s only known black Chasidic rapper (how many of them are there outside the Big Apple?), Y-Love, talks about being, well, a black Jewish rapper.

A teenager’s suicide has rattled L.A.’s Persian Jewish community, polarizing the wealthy and insular community and challenging its commitment to Persian Jewish traditions and American justice, the L.A. Times reports.

The spat between a Boston-area mosque and The David Project, a pro-Israel group, is fading as regular worship at the mosque gets under way, the Boston Globe finds.

Also in the Globe, a Jewish U.S. Army chaplain reviews his 15 months of service in Iraq: “I wore a yarmulke everywhere, a strange sight in a place like Iraq. I ate strictly kosher food: lots of salad, cup o’ soups, dried salami, dehydrated camping meals, and more tuna than most people eat in a lifetime. I fasted on all the fast days and celebrated every holiday in the Jewish calendar – a few of them twice.”

Newfound Sabbath observance compelled Jewish blogger Leah Koenig (jcarrot.org) and her boyfriend to go on a 5-mile Shabbat march to attend a Saturday wedding. She wrote an essay about her trek in The New York Times’ Sunday Magazine.

Also in the Times, a Queens synagogue finds a happy ending after its stolen Torah scrolls were recovered by police.